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Regular readers of Hoop Coach, will recognize the concept of “playing basketball” as it applies to what players need to do when a play or set gets the offense a half-step or step advantage or worse yet, breaks down totally and the defense has the edge. Players who expect the play or set to miraculously…
Mention the word pivoting to many players and some coaches and they’re apt to give you a blank stare or look like they have a stick in their eye. When was the last time you saw a player practicing pivoting on his own or heard a coach lecture on pivoting at a clinic? Yet it…
In a past article BLOCKS and STEALS: TRACK the UNSUCCESSFUL ONES TOO, it was pointed out that blocks and steals as raw stats can be very misleading when you don’t take into account missed blocks and steals and the damage they create. Blocks and steals are only two of what I generally call “empty stats”….
For those readers who play with a shot clock, perhaps the most important usage of points per possession at both ends of the floor is how effective your team is at the end of the shot clock. For purposes of this article, let’s define the “end” as the last 10 seconds. (For those who play…
As you prepare for the season, many of you will run the same basic basketball offense system as you did this past season. Some of you will be looking to add some wrinkles and then others will be in the market for a total remake. In the last two cases, the tendencies are to either…
My recent article Increase Your Competitive Edge: Reduce Fouls and Turnovers correlated the number of successful 2014-2015 NCAA teams who had both low turnover and fouls per game rates. Today, I want to discuss the correlation of low team fouls and both low team blocks and steals. The NCAA doesn’t track ATTEMPTED blocks or steals. All…